Roland Breitenfeld

Roland Breitenfeld was born in Dresden in 1952. He received his first formal musical schooling during his time as a member of the Dresdener Kreuzchor 1963-1968 headed by Rudolf Mauersberger.
From 1972 to 1984 he worked at the music department of the Saxon State Library in Dresden. He studied musicology in 1974/75 at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle. In 1978 he began to study composition with Paul-Heinz Dittrich in Zeuthen and further with Wilfried Krätzschmar at the music academy in Dresden from 1980 to 1982.

Since 1984 Roland Breitenfeld has been based in Freiburg i. Br.
1984 study stay in "Künstlerhaus Boswil" (Switzerland); prix for composition
He continued his studies at the state music academy in Freiburg with Klaus Huber and Emmanuel Nunes (composition) and Mesias Maiguashca (electronic and computer music).
Intermediately, he worked as a freelancer for various music publishers, e.g. for Ricordi, Milano from 1987 to 1993 (edition of scores of works with live-electronics by Luigi Nono in cooperation with the Experimental-Studio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Foundation at the Südwestfunk (SWF) in Freiburg. Up until Nono's death, Roland Breitenfeld and Luigi Nono developed a close working relationship.

Don Oung Lee and Roland Breitenfeld founded the profectio-initiative freiburg, an ensemble for electronic and contemporary music in 1991.
In 1994 he was awarded a scholarship of the Foundation Kulturfond Berlin, and in 1995/96 accepted a scholarship of the State of Baden-Württemberg in conjunction with an assistantship for computer-notation at the electronic-studio of the state music academy in Freiburg.
With Mesias Maiguashca, he established the K.O.-Studio (KlangObjekt-Studio) in Freiburg since 1998 which is directed on the production and staging of computer based music.
In 2002 Breitenfeld taught computer notation courses and performed two concerts during the VIII. de Música Contemporánea in Quito, Ecuador.

From 1992 to 2006 he has worked as a freelancer at the Experimental-Studio of the SWR in Freiburg. During this time there were collaborations with many well-known conductors, such as: Claudio Abbado (1995 Berlin, Vienna), Sylvain Cambreling (2002, 2005 Donaueschingen), Péter Eötvös (1996 Frankfurt, Berlin, 1997 Brussels - Director Robert Wilson, 1998 Akiyoshidai, Japan), Michael Gielen (2003 Stuttgart, Edinburgh), Ingo Metzmacher (1993 Salzburg, 2004 Hamburg), Franck Ollu (2011 Tongyeong, South Korea), Emilio Pomàrico (1995 Lisbon, 2000 Bochum), Kwamé Ryan (1995 Lisbon), Arturo Tamayo (1995 Huddersfield), Lothar Zagrosek (1993 Baden-Baden), Noam Zur (2005/06 Heidelberg) and many more.

From 2006 to 2017 he was professor of composition and electronic music at the Seoul National University (SNU) in Seoul, South Korea.

He has appeared at various European and Asian festivals as a performer of electronic contemporary music.
His works have been performed in Europe, Asia and South America.

He is married to Ingrid Breitenfeld and they have three sons and three grandchildren.

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